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" Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators. "

Amos Bronson Alcott

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" Reforming public education, cutting property taxes, fixing adult and child protective services and funding our budget can all occur when Democrats and Republicans engage in consensus and cooperation - not cynicism and combat. "

" There is no education like adversity. "

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" If you have four years to complete your college education, do it. "

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" I believe this system of mass incarceration would have Dr. King turning in his grave. There's no doubt in my mind that Dr. King would be doing everything in his power to build a movement to end mass incarceration in the United States; a movement for education, not incarceration. "

Michelle Alexander

" To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks. "

" Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought. "

" When men and women, boys and girls, are denied the right to education, the right to own land, the access to basic services like healthcare and clean water, a fair price for the crops they grow, a fair wage for the work they do, or the right to be part of making decisions that affect them, the result is poverty. "

Winnie Byanyima

" The good news is world population growth rate decreases systematically and is expected to reach zero by 2050, thanks to urbanisation and women's education. "

" I was the first tenured woman at Columbia. That was 1972; every law school was looking for its woman. Why? Because Stan Pottinger, who was then head of the office for civil rights of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, was enforcing the Nixon government contract program. "

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

" If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. "

" Education should learn from the positive side of gaming - reward, accomplishment, and fun. "

Sebastian Thrun

" I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students. "

" For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the Bible to that literature would be to leave one's literary education very incomplete. "

" The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative. "

" A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated. "

" Ensuring quality higher education is one of the most important things we can do for future generations. "

" One of the hallmarks of higher education and of democracy is the ability to converse with people with whom we disagree. "

" The economy is the start and end of everything. You can't have successful education reform or any other reform if you don't have a strong economy. "

" I think people understand that if you're going to have a successful economy, you need people's potential to be realized. That means education. It means university education, sure, but it also means training, apprenticeships and various kinds of skills diplomas that we know are necessary. "

" Education can also be used as a soft power and as a soft force to transform societies. When I say transform societies it means we can tackle issues in political, social, cultural, economic areas. These are the most important things. "

Moza bint Nasser

" If the Liberals' law is passed, will sex education in the schools, including elementary grades, include the same portrayals of sexual activity which presently exist in heterosexual instruction? Will there be the same presentation of homosexual activity? Of course there will. "

" I am very much a person who likes to change with the times. Education is what it is all about. "

" There is definitely a need for increasing capacity in higher education; a large part of this is being met in the technical education segment by the private sector and in the non-technical by the state sector. In the public sector, we will do whatever we can afford. "

" America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few. "

" I love great journalism. I appreciate it. I love a good, you know, I love good news stories. I love great books. I love great articles. I appreciate them so much, and they've been part of my education as a woman. "

" A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences. "

Amos Bronson Alcott

" I need to complete my homework on time. "

Malala Yousafzai

" Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world. "

" All of the things an arts education gives a young person enhance leadership skills and help raise grades. "

" Social services, not wealth per se, seem to be the key to lower birth rates. The Chinese, although among the poorest peoples of the world, have brought their fertility rate down to 2.4, partly by social coercion, but mostly by broadly available education, health care and family planning. "

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